ChatGPT wrote a novel. The dialogue gave it away.
ChatGPT wrote a 233-page thriller. The prose is cleaner than most published books. Everyone in it talks the same.
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Here’s the workflow.
I Taught Claude to Dream About My Book
And your book, too (It's free)
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I let AI try to write a whole novel by itself.